Demon Slayer

After the cold winter, the early spring ushered in, and the water town of Jiangnan is full of vitality.

In the middle of the river on the outskirts of the city, on a wooden boat, two men sit facing each other and drink.

"Yonong, tomorrow is the day of my death."

The man in black shook his hand, spilling most of the wine.

Then, the man in the prison uniform let out a chuckle: "Look at you, a demon who has lived for hundreds of years, how come you still have hands and feet?"

Yao Nong stared blankly at his black clothes that were soaked in wine. After a moment of silence, he said: "If the clothes are dirty, you can change them. But if a person dies, there is no second one that can be replaced."

Shangguan Jue bit his lip, and kept tightening his hand holding the porcelain cup, using more and more force, until his five fingers turned white without any blood color. The next moment, a crisp sound sounded, and the pieces of the porcelain cup fell down.

Yao Nong looked at the sweating man opposite in shock, and saw him slowly open his hand, the blood in the palm of his hand dripped continuously on the wooden boat plank like a small water column, making a dull sound.

"Shangguan Jue, you are crazy!"

"I didn't!" Shangguan Jue shouted loudly and with great force.

Yao Nong was stunned.

Shangguan Jue laughed maniacally twice, ignoring the pain in his hand, he held the wine jar tightly and poured wine into his mouth desperately.Yao Nong opened his eyes wide and stared blankly at Shangguan Jue. He suddenly felt a pain in his throat, as if there were a lot of things stuck in his throat and he couldn't spit it out, which made him shed tears.

"Pa—" the wine jar was smashed into pieces.

Shangguan Jue's eyes were loose, his hair was disheveled, and he had long since lost his former demeanor.He glanced at Yao Nong, opened the corners of his mouth, and said softly: "I don't regret it..." Then he covered his eyes with his hands, and his voice was trembling with the corner of his mouth curved: "Yonong, I don't regret it, really... I don't regret it ..."

"I really don't regret it. After living for a few more years, the thought of being able to avenge him...I...I'm very happy." The blood on Shangguan Jue's palm was mixed with tears and flowed all over his face, which was very glaring.

"Hahaha... I'm finally going to find him. In the days without him, it seems that I will never see the light of day, like a walking dead. Look... this... how can I regret such a good thing..."

Yao Nong stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, trying to suppress his choked up crying.

"Don't cry...what are you crying for?" Shangguan Jue poured two glasses of wine, picked up one of them, with a dull expression, "Friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, come, this is the last glass of wine."

.........

In the evening, Yao Nong returned to the White Mansion.Before he reached the front hall, Bai Changting rushed over upon hearing the sound, seeing Yao Nong's sad appearance, he hurriedly hugged him into his arms.

Yao Nong pushed Bai Changting away wearily, and whispered: "I'm so tired."

Bai Changting stared blankly at Yao Nong's retreating figure, and clenched his fists.

In the middle of the night, it rained from the sky, and the sound of the raindrops hitting the window was like a human weeping.Bai Changting tiptoed past the person next to the pillow, put on his shoes, put on a coat, walked to the table, and lit the oil lamp.

Take out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, spread the paper flat, grind the ink, hold the pen, dip it in the ink, and write it down.This series of movements was skillful without making any sound.

The words on the paper are strong, free and easy.

Bai Changting sighed softly, put down the brush, and then folded the paper, brought his finger to his mouth to bite it, moved his bloody finger to the paper, and printed it vigorously.

He stood up, took off the lampshade and blew out the candle.The bluish-white moonlight leaked in from outside the door, Bai Changting walked slowly to the window, opened the window, called the carrier pigeon, and delivered the letter.

Outside the window, the wicker sprouted new buds, swaying quietly in the night wind.Bai Changting looked at the pigeons flying away, unable to regain his senses for a long time.

"Are you really thinking about it?" A dark shadow gradually flashed under the willows in the distance.

Bai Changting lowered his eyes, the cold rain hit his face, he stretched out his hand to wipe off the rain, and said lightly: "Think about it."

Hei Ying asked again: "Are you willing?"

Bai Changting turned his head to look at the sleeping person on the bed, and nodded: "I'm willing."

.........

On the second day, near noon, the dark clouds dispersed and the sun shone brightly.

In the quiet room, the incense burner was suddenly touched to the ground by a cat named 'Chun', and the ear-piercing sound woke up the sleeping people on the bed.

Yao Nong opened his eyes and sat up on the bed.He turned his head and looked out the window, frowning involuntarily.He wanted to get out of bed, but found that his feet were chained to the end of the bed.

"Bai Changting!" Yao Nong roared angrily, pulling the iron chain vigorously, but no matter what method he tried, he couldn't break the iron chain.He continued to struggle, the iron chains made a crisp crashing sound, and his ankle was bleeding.

"It's useless, it's a demon-locking chain." A voice sounded from inside the room.

Yao Nong looked for the sound, and saw a refined young man standing in front of him.The young man smiled, shook the folding fan in his hand, and said, "If you want to save Shangguan Jue, you can. I have the key."

Yao Nong's eyes were full of vigilance, "What do you want?"

With the corners of his eyes bent, the young man walked to the end of the bed, took out the key and opened the lock.As soon as the lock was opened, Yao Nong immediately dodged behind the young man, and asked coldly, "Why help me?"

The young man turned around slowly, closed his folding fan, and bowed, "It's in Xialiu Lane."

Bewitching and squinting, Liu Xiang?This name resounds through the Six Paths.

Rumor has it that there is nothing in the world that he does not know.Moreover, this person's disposition is very strange, he only cares about people's fate, but he doesn't understand his fate.There was once a young man who spent all his wealth just to find a solution to the disaster. Liu Xiang just said lightly: "There is no solution." Then he broke the young man's leg.

"Mr. Liu is willing to let me go, and why?" Yao Nong took a step back and looked at Liu Xiang.

"It's destined." Liu Xiang still smiled politely and said, "If you go this time, you will die."

"Will you still go?" Liu Xiang opened the folding fan again, shaking it gracefully.

Yao Nong bit his lip, bowed to Liu Xiang, turned and walked towards the door.

Liu Xiang's gentle voice sounded: "Don't you want to ask about the solution?"

Yao Nong paused, his eyes were firm, "There is no solution."

Liu Xiang raised the corners of his lips.

.........

A quarter of noon.

The guillotine was surrounded by ordinary people, and passers-by who came later asked, "Hey, what is the background of this prisoner? Why did the Queen Mother even come to see it?"

A man replied: "You don't know yet? This is the three kings who want to rebel. Otherwise, would there be so many court ministers here!"

Three o'clock noon.

Following an order, the man on the guillotine closed his eyes.The executioner swung the polished broadsword, and it fell quickly.

"Boom—" The sword suddenly snapped in half.

A person flashed out of nowhere behind the executioner, and the people on the execution ground suddenly became confused.Yao Nong kicked the executioner who got in the way, tore off the rope, and pulled up Shangguan Jue who was kneeling on the guillotine.

"Yonong, you shouldn't have come." Shangguan Jue sighed.

"Don't talk nonsense, follow me." Yao Nong waved his hand vigorously, purple light flashed, and the soldiers killed in front of him were bounced a few meters away.

Shangguan Jue didn't move, he stared at the gorgeously dressed queen mother in the distance, and calmly said: "If I don't leave, the loser will be the bandit."

Yao Nong was so annoyed by Shangguan Jue's words, he said angrily: "The loser is the bandit, right? The outcome is still undecided, I will help you!"

The next moment, Yao Nong pulled Shangguan Jue to fly over the soldiers who were killing them one after another, and quickly flashed to the Queen Mother.At this time, the Queen Mother was shocked, Yao Nong picked up a sword and stuffed it into Shangguan Jue's hand, saying: "Kill her and take revenge."

Shangguan Jue was stunned for a while, and then, with a flash of killing intent in his eyes, he clenched his long sword and stabbed at the Queen Mother.Suddenly, a person flashed out from nowhere, holding the sword.

Shangguan Jue stared at him blankly, his fingers trembling.

The palm of the person holding the sword kept bleeding. He looked at Shangguan Jue and said, "You can't kill her."

The queen mother breathed a sigh of relief, pointed at Shangguan Jue, and ordered to the people in front of her: "Jiang Jing, kill him, kill this traitor quickly!"

Jiang Jing remained expressionless, snatched the sword from Shangguan Jue's hand, and said coldly, "Yes."

Shangguan Jue's tears flowed down, this person was right, it was Jiang Jing...it couldn't be wrong.

Yao Nong couldn't believe his eyes, the person his friend had been dreaming about for a long time didn't die!

In a rage, he grabbed Jiang Jing's neck and asked angrily, "What's going on?"

Jiang Jing kept his face cold and kept silent.

Shangguan Jue's eyes were red from crying, he stared at Jiang Jing who was about to be suffocated, and choked up: "Why?"

Jiang Jing squeezed out a smile: "I... am... using you..."

Shangguan Jue shook his head desperately in disbelief, "No...impossible...not possible."

"Go to hell!" Yao Nong gritted his teeth and exerted more force on his hands.

"Pfft—" the sound of skin and flesh ripping out.

Yao Nong let go of his hand, looked down at the point of the knife protruding from his chest, turned his head slowly, and met a pair of indifferent eyes.He recognized this person, the two of them were still lingering in bed the night before, and this person still put on an affectionate appearance last night.

Yaogou smiled, reached out and slapped Bai Changting across the face.Bai Changting pursed his lips and said nothing.

Yaoyong blinked and spat out blood.He grabbed Shangguan Jue whose face was full of tears, gritted his teeth and backed away until the blade withdrew from his body.

Blood stained his white clothes.

Yao Nong's ears started to ring a little, and he couldn't hear what Shangguan Jue was crying to him.He just felt that he was so embarrassed, he couldn't stand still, he knelt on the ground, wiped the blood from his mouth indiscriminately, looked up at the pale Bai Changting, and said with a chuckle: "You still don't understand love? But I understand, loving someone...it will hurt here..."

Yao Nong weakly pointed at his chest, tears streaming down his face.He fell to the ground, and in a trance, he saw Bai Changting's eyes turned red.

Then, he closed his eyes, and the surroundings were dark and completely silent.

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